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| Title: | The river Congo: the discovery, exploration and exploitation of the world's most dramatic river |
| Author: | Forbath, Peter |
| Year: | 1978 |
| Pages: | 411 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | London |
| Publisher: | Secker and Warburg |
| ISBN: | 0436160919 |
| Geographic terms: | Central Africa Congo (Democratic Republic of) |
| Subjects: | colonialism rivers |
| Abstract: | Tells the story of the Congo as Moorehead told the story of the Nile, the story of the river's discovery, exploration by Europe told as that seamless narrative of incredible adventure which more than anything else explains the special place the Congo holds in the Western imagination. |